Enable camera uploads

Once enabled, camera uploads will add photos automatically, even when the Dropbox app is closed. Photos will only be uploaded when:

Your phone is plugged in, and has a full or nearly-full battery

You're connected to Wi-Fi

Your phone is locked

If you want to disable camera uploads, use the same instructions and toggle Camera upload off.

Change camera uploads settings

Open the Dropbox app.

Open the Files, Photos, or Favorites tabs.

Tap the ⋯ (ellipsis) icon.

Tap Camera Upload.

Toggle the Upload When Open option within the camera uploads settings. This ensure that photos are uploaded even if your phone is not locked and not plugged in, as long as it isn't in Power Saving mode.

Toggle the Use Cellular Data option to upload your photos while the app is open, but you're connected to the cellular network.

Note: If you have camera uploads set to WiFi-only, and you then connect to WiFi over a mobile hotspot, camera uploads won't work.

Note: Automatic video upload is not currently supported for Windows Mobile.

Camera uploads is not available on Linux. Check the Dropbox Community for updates and more information.

Uploading photos from multiple devices

Camera uploads only uploads each photo and video into your Camera Uploads folderonce. If you disable and then reenable camera uploads, or if you have camera uploads enabled on both your phone and computer, your photos and videos are each only uploaded once.

View your photos in the Dropbox mobile app

Basic, Plus, and Professional users can view all photos in Dropbox by selecting the Photos tab (the photo icon) at the bottom of any page in the Dropbox mobile app.

Dropbox Business users should navigate directly to the Camera Uploads folder in their Dropbox account to view photos in the app.

Dropbox Business users should navigate directly to the Camera Uploads folder in their Dropbox account to view photos in the app

Background uploading

Background uploading allows camera uploads to finish adding photos to your Dropbox, even if you don't open the Dropbox app. By default, the Dropbox app doesn’t upload files when the app is closed. If you turn on background uploading, Dropbox resumes uploading photos and videos when the app detects a significant change in your device’s location.

Dropbox Business: How to avoid adding personal photos to your work account

When you enable camera uploads for your Dropbox Business account, every photo in your camera roll (or the default place where your photos are kept in your phone) will be automatically uploaded to the Camera Uploads folder in your business account. If your camera roll contains personal photos, then those will also be uploaded to your business account.

To avoid adding your personal photos to your Dropbox Business account, we recommend the following:

Make sure there are no personal photos in your camera roll before turning on camera uploads for your business account

If there are personal photos, back them up elsewhere (like your personal Dropbox account), and then delete them from your camera roll before using camera uploads with your business account

Note: Users that have connected their personal and business accounts can only have camera uploads enabled for one account at a time (personal or business). As with all Dropbox Business users, when a user with connected personal and business accounts switches their camera uploads to their business account, every photo in the camera roll is uploaded to the business account.

Dropbox Business team members: Turn on camera uploads

Camera uploads are on (by default) for your entire team, unless your team admin has turned them off. Each team member has the option to turn them on (or off) for their own account, individually.

Users that have connected their personal and business accounts can only have camera uploads enabled for one account at a time (personal or business). If you're a Dropbox Business user and the admin has disabled camera uploads for your business account, you can still use camera uploads in a personal account.